The new social security raise starting in January is a joke!

Inflation is 8 percent, and food is 15 to 20 percent inflated. Yet people living on social security are expected to cope with a 3.2 percent cost of living raise. PATHETIC!!!!!! DISGUSTING!!!!! CRIMINAL!!!!

Listen to the guy complain about something most of us will probably never get because the people he wants in office are trying to defund it.

You're absolutely clueless what a COLA raise is on Social Security. COLA (cost of living allowance) raises to Social Security are calculated each year to reflect inflation. If you get more.....inflation is up. If you get less...inflation is down. In ANYONE'S world.........less inflation is better........so getting less COLA is getting exactly what everyone says they want...............less inflation.

Saying don't count on my vote in November because inflation is down..........is well over the line of stupid. You won't vote for someone who is bringing inflation down??????? God no wonder so many people can be duped by trump. You don't even comprehend what you're complaining about.

Unfortunately this has been happening for decades regardless who’s in office.

Say you’re an illegal… get the gold standard

My son got the a similar letter for SSI disability.

In the long run, it looks like it will be only a few pennies to for him as well.

Inflation is caused by low interest rates, strong job market, and out of control consumer spending due to low interest rates which makes companies raise prices. The gas companies used the war as an excuse to raise prices. So how did any president cause inflation? This was going on during Trump too. If you want to blame anyone, Fed chairman Jerome Powell is your man. He controls monetary policy and interest rates.

Exactly how have Biden caused inflation?
Covid created inflation world wide. Trump sat as president 2017-2021 so if you wanna blame inflation on a president, it's him.

Biden has been on what two years? He's not a magician he can't just make the covid consequences vanish just because he is president. Do you know how long time it takes to go from inflation to normal after a pandemic? I'm asking because I think two years is far from enough time to set the world straight again.

It also depends where we lay the money. If we lay it on social security help, the taxes will go up. Republicans prefer lower taxes and don't really bother with how it effects those who don't afford a living. (People on security money , people with health care needs etc)

However. I don't know if Trump would care any more than Biden has about your wife. America is a BIG capitalistic country. Where putting money in is what counts. Not who you are and not your values, your character. Those who can profit for America, are those that will be prioritized no matter what President we have.

Without these rich people and companies we would have an even worse inflation. Because the country is dependent on their success. And Europe is dependent on US sucess and so on.

To change this would mean to let go of capitalism. And I don't think US ever has had a plan to do that.

Yes I was underwhelmed by it as well.

The Fed gets you coming and going, and screws everything they touch up.

Prayers you and your wife are ok and you manage the increased costs 🙏

My monthly Walmart supplies has more than doubled since BinBiden stole 2020, we are now ten or eleven quarters into a recession that they refuse to move into a depression, claiming that the economy is good and that job growth is at an all time high, what jobs? People are merely going back to work after doing their jobs remotely.